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This is a post about what words mean and why atheists and theists sometimes find themselves missing each other’s points in the middle. It’s also a list of suggestions: Things to Please Stop Saying to Atheists, Please, We Beg You. How can you know for sure there’s no god? The universe is vast. What if … [Read more…]

In 2009, Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago used an fMRI scanner to peer into the brains of volunteers who were asked to state opinions on various controversial topics. [Click here for a full summary of the experiments] The volunteers gave their own opinions, what they believed other people’s … [Read more…]

The body of a newborn baby is as old as the cosmos. The form is new and unique, but the materials are 13.7 billion years old, processed by nuclear fusion in stars, fashioned by electromagnetism. Cold words for amazing processes. And that baby was you. Is you. You’re amazing. Not only alive, but with a … [Read more…]